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Bear Grylls Producer Snakebite Foot Injury Picture

Outline
Social media message featuring an image depicting a severe foot injury claims that the injury was the result of a snakebite suffered by Stephen Rankin a producer of the Bear Grylls television series.

Brief Analysis
The claims are true. The image does depict a snakebite related injury to producer Stephen Rankin's foot and was posted by Bear Grylls himself via his Twitter feed.
Later, less gruesome post-surgery pictures have also been posted online.

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Detailed Analysis

A graphic image showing a rather gruesome foot injury is currently going viral via social media posts, blogs and forums. Most of the posts claim that the depicted foot injury is the result of a snakebite suffered by the producer of the Bear Grylls television series Man vs Wild. Some alternative versions claim that the injury was the result of a biking accident or other causes.

However,
the Bear Grylls version of the message is in fact the correct one. Man vs Wild producer Stephen Rankin was indeed bitten by a snake and had to have surgery for a seriously injured foot as a result. Bear Grylls himself posted news of the bite along with a link to the graphic image, via the following tweet to his million plus Twitter followers: